Sports Illustrated layoffs

Did the employees laid off get a 5-Hour Notice?

(Slight grammar nod to them including the hyphen in their style)

 

So two SI jerkoffs lose their jobs for doing the exact thing the big bosses wanted them to do. That org is a smoking shitpile.

 

First they came for the well-compensated, well-qualified writers, and I said nothing.

Then they came for the poorly compensated, meagerly talented writers, and I said nothing.

Then they came for the AI bots and I said nothing.

 

NO POWERPOINTS!

 

https://www.wbur.org/radio/programs/onpoint

It's jumping off point is the report SI was using fake reporters, but it discusses AI in journalism in general and SI's and related brands' directions in the last few years.

 

Lamenting about the state of Sports Illustrated, in a Vanity Fair article:

“The Worst That It’s Ever Been”: Inside Sports Illustrated’s Winter of Discontent

 

Id argue that lamenting about SI post Time-Life is kind of like saying Craftsmen tools aren't as good as they used to be - they are merely brand names at this point with little of the DNA of the thing that made them household names.

 

Craftsman is made by Stanley, whose tools I thought were still decent. And Craftsman is their top line, or no?

(Someone should make a movie about Eddie Lambert, who stripped Sears bare and sold any asset worth anything while enriching himself.)

 

Craftsman is now owned by Stanley Black & Decker. When Sears owned it, manufacturing was farmed out to various manufacturers. Now it’s under one roof, and its quality is arguably better than before.

 

I usually throw some magazines in family stockings suitable to their personalities - didn't even bother this year. The magazine rack at the local grocery store was stocked with "special issues" - things that could hang out for a while and not get stale.
One of the genius things about The New Yorker is that they write about things months ahead of them becoming HUGE things - globally or culturally - and they write and present the magazine so well that a dated version is as enjoyable a read as one from last week.